Tiger tiger

From
Donald Simpson

Tam Dalyell comments gloomily on the future of Indian tigers(Westminster Diary, 19 June, p 57).
No doubt the ideal solution would be for people in the
Far East to abandon historical beliefs in the value of tigers’ bones as
effective medicines, thus reducing the demand which makes poaching profitable.
However, since this is likely to follow, rather than precede, the extermination
of wild tigers I have an alternative suggestion, designed to fit in with the
modern enthusiasm for free-market policies.

Tigers are bred readily in zoos and wildlife parks, so if we were to farm
them the Chinese …